As the Wine Partner of the inaugural Asian Masters, Monopole is proud to present the Yalumba Wine Dinner featuring the cuisine of… read more

As the Wine Partner of the inaugural Asian Masters, Monopole is proud to present the Yalumba Wine Dinner featuring the cuisine of Chef Chung Manh Cuong from Square One, Park Hyatt Saigon and Executive Chef of Grand Hyatt Singapore.

One of the highlights of this five-course dinner is a ‘mini’ vertical tasting of 2003, 2004 & 2005 The Signature – Cabernet Shiraz. Releases of The Signature in the past decade have been awarded 3 top 100s, 4 Trophies, 22 Gold and 58 Silver Medals in Wine Competitions across the globe.

Deep and intense, The Signature blend displays full palate weight with powerful, fruit and soft American oak, which was hand-coopered at Yalumba. It’s a sentimental favourite. Join us now, on 19 Jan 2011 to savour this Barossa icon. (Refer to menu and wine list below)

Enjoy 15% off, at a special price of S$100.30++ per person (Usual: S$118.00++) with your American Express Credit Card. Sign up now to avoid disappointment! For reservations, please call Sphere at +65 6319 1888 or www.asianmasters.com.sg

WIN TWO SEATS TO YALUMBA WINE DINNER NOW!
Stand a chance to win two seats, worth $236 to the Asian Master’s Yalumba Wine Dinner with every purchase of one case (6-bottle pack) of 2005 Yalumba The Signature at a special price of $435nett! (Usual: $508) Offer valid from now till 16 Jan 2011. For enquiries or orders, please call +65 6554 3680 or info@monopole.com.sg

From a lost play by Eubulos, (c.405 BC - c.335 BC)
‘For sensible men I prepare only three kraters (large vase used to mix wine): one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. After the third one is drained, wise men go home.

The fourth krater is not mine any more - it belongs to bad behaviour; the fifth is for shouting; the sixth is for rudeness and insults; the seventh is for fights; the eighth is for breaking the furniture; the ninth is for depression; the tenth is for madness and unconsciousness.’

The Wandering Palate - Curtis Marsh
With nearly 30 years experience in the hospitality, wine and media industries, Curtis Marsh is one of the most erudite, passionate and truly independent wine writer, commentator and presenter in Asia.

"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read.

But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defence of the new.”

As uttered by the vitriolic restaurant critic Anton Ego, in the film “Ratatouille”, after his epiphany.